Not in Love
Ali Hazelwood
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
3.85
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 143 ratings · 384 pages · Published: 11 Jun 2024
Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.
Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through—and he’s a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can’t stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him.
Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business—one that plays for keeps.
Tagged as:
- contemporary 24
- workplace/office 21
- dual pov 21
- m-f romance 21
- tall heroine 16
- competent heroine 14
- independent heroine 14
- enemies to lovers 13
- neurodivergent mc 13
- sweet/gentle hero 13
- friends with benefits 13
- third person pov 12
- nerdy hero 12
- secret relationship 11
- ceo/tycoon hero 11
- grumpy/ice queen 11
- forbidden love 10
- ice/figure skating 10
- first person pov 9
- hockey 9
- betrayal 9
- vengeance 9
- shy heroine 9
- tortured heroine 9
- praise kink 8
- childfree 8
- new adult 7
- white collar heroine 7
- forced proximity 6
- tortured hero 6
- bondage 6
- rich hero 5
- insta-love 5
- female rake 5
- hurt/comfort 4
- found family 3
- bdsm 2
- funny 2
- spanking 1
- male pov 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past child neglect 19
- eating disorders 16
- death / grief 7
- past child abuse 6
- geography
- usa 13
- texas 13
- north america 10